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Mary Wortley Montagu
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Mary Wortley Montagu
Age: 73 †
Born: 1689
Born: January 1
Died: 1762
Died: August 21
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Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies I no longer read anything but novels.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.
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The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.
Mary Wortley Montagu
It has all been most interesting.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
Mary Wortley Montagu
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Mary Wortley Montagu
One can never outlive one's vanity.
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I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
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Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Mary Wortley Montagu
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
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